Method of making shoes



Aug. 27, 1940. K. ENGEL METHOD 0F MAKING sHoEs Original Filed Sept. 8, 1956 `Jv7'UNITED.-fS'l'vATEs PATENT I OFFICE `United Shoe Machinery Corporation, Borough of` Flemington,` N. J., a corporation ofV New l V `Jersey original appueation septembers, 1936, serial No.

99,691. Divided and this application Novem bei' 8, 1939, Serial No.l 303,444

3 Claims.

This invention relates to methodsof making shoes. v

It is an object of the invention tov provide'a method of forming the rear part of an upper so as to facilitate its attachment to a sole in accordance with the method set forth in my co-pending application, Serial No. 99,691, filed September 8, 1936, of which this application is a division.

With the above object in view, the invention as illustrated herein comprises a method` of making yshoes which consists in providing a shoe upper with a lining, at least at .its heel portion,

tempering a heel stiiener provided with an inturned sole attaching ange, positioning the stiffener between the lining and the upper at the heel end of the shoe, bending the ilange of the stiifener to cause it to extend generally heightwise of the upper, then stitching together the bottom margins of the upper heel stiiener and lining, turning inwardly the bottom margins of the parts thus united, and securing said inturned margins to the heel end of a sole. Preferably the bottom margins of the upper and lining are trimmed to the edge of the -ange of the stilener before the combined margins are turned inwardly' in order that the inturned margin may be of a predetermined width corresponding to a marginal channel in the top surface of the sole to which the upper is to be secured.

While the method of the present invention is lparticularly suited to the manufacture of shoes therein;

1 Fig. 2 is a sectional View similar to Fig. 1 showing the flange of the counter bent downwardly;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating the operation of stitching together the bottom margins of the upper, counter, and lining;

Fig. 4 is a perspective View illustrating the trimming of the upper and lining; and

v Fig. 5 is a perspective View showing the reary shape of the heel seat portion of a shoe.

with part of its bottom margin turned inwardly.

, In Fig. 1 the rear part of a shoe upper is identilied by the numeral I0. A counter lining or cover l2 is secured to the upper by a seam I4 and a molded counter I6 is positioned between the upper and the counter cover. In order to facilitate the stitching together of the bottom margins of the upper, counter, and counter cover, the@ counter is tempered, at least in the region of the fold linegfor example, by moistening it in water before it is inserted in the upper. After it has been inserted,` the counter flange, for example the flange I8 of the counter illustrated in Fig. 1, is bent downwardly into its position in Fig. 2 and stitched to the upper and counter cover while invthat position (Fig. 3). After the parts have been thus stitched together those portions of the bottom margins of the upper and the counter cover extending upon the edge of the counter flange are trimmed off, for example by means `of aknife 29 (Fig. 4) and the margins of the upper, counter, and counter cover are bend inwardly on the original fold line ofthe counter ange. This operation may conveniently be performed by arranging the rear part of the upper upon an anvil such, for example, as the anvil 22 illustrated in Fig. 5, said anvil being provided with a top plate having the general With the upper in position on the anvil 22, as illustrated in Fig. 5, its bottom margin may readily be pounded or pressed over the top face of the anvil in order to cause it to extend inwardly in proper position for attachment to a sole.

It will be understood that an upper prepared in accordance with this method has an inturned bottom margin of predetermined width particularly adapted to be secured to a sole having a marginal channel in its topsurface for the reception of the inturned margin of an upper, as illustrated and described in my co-pending application,` Serial No. 99,691, hereinbefore referred to.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is:

1. That method of making shoes which comprises providing a shoe upper with a lining, at least at its heel portion, tempering a heel stiflener provided with an inturned sole-attaching ange, positioning the tempered heel stiffener between the lining and the upper at the heel end of the shoe, bending the flange of the heel stiffener to cause it to extend generally heightwise of the upper, stitching together the bottom margins of the upper, heel stiffener and lining, turning the bottom margins of the heel portions of said upper materials inwardly, and securing said inturned margins to the heel end of a sole.

2. That method of making shoes which comprises prfovi'ding arsho upper with a lining'at least at its heel portion, tempering a flanged counter, positioning the counter between the lining and the upper at the heel end of the shoe, bending the flange of the counter to return it substantially to its position before the counter was molded, stitching to the margin of the counter flange the bottom margin of the upper and lining, inwardly bending the counter flange together with the bottom margins of the upper and the lining on the fold line of the counter flange, and securing said inturned margins to the heel portion of a sole.

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3. That method of making shoes which comprises providing a shoe upper with a lining at least at its heel portion, tempering a flanged counter, positioning the counter between the lining and theupper at the heel end ofthe shoe, bending the iiange of the' counter. tolreturnit substantially to its position before the counter is molded, stitching to the margin of the counter flange the bottom margins of the upper and lining, trimming the bottom margins of the upper and lining to the edge of the counter flange, inwardly bending the counter flange together with the bottom margins of the upper and the lining on the fold line of the counter flange, and securing said inturned margins to the heel portion of a sole.

4 KARL ENGEL. 

